Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson (born October 25, 1984), known professionally as Katy Perry, is an American singer, songwriter, and television judge. After singing in church during her childhood, she pursued a career in gospel music as a teenager.
Perry signed with Red Hill Records and released her debut studio album Katy Hudson under her birth name in 2001, which was commercially unsuccessful. She moved to Los Angeles the following year to venture into secular music after Red Hill ceased operations and she subsequently began working with producers Glen Ballard, Dr. Luke, and Max Martin.
After adopting the stage name Katy Perry and being dropped by The Island Def Jam Music Group and Columbia Records, she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records in April 2007.
Katy Perry's Dark Horse did NOT plagiarise Christian rap song, judge rules
standard.co.ukPopstar Katy Perry has successfully overturned a £2.2 million ($2.8m) court ruling that her hit single ‘Dark Horse’ was plagiarised from a Christian rap song.
A jury delivered a bombshell verdict in July last year that beats and notes from Ms Perry’s chart-topping 2013 song had been copied from another tune released four years earlier.
The singer was personally ordered to pay $550,000 in damages to gospel rapper Flame, whose song ‘Joyful Noise’ she was said to have plagiarised, while Capitol Records and the producers of the track were landed with the rest of the $2.8m payout.
However California Federal judge Christina A Snyder last night overturned the decision, wiping out the damages and ruling that the jury’s verdict was not supported by
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